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Land Values Taxation Jan 1918

Land Values Taxation

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Section 15 to Article XIII of constitution. On and after January 1, 1919, requires all public revenues, state, county, municipal and district, be raised by taxation of value of land irrespective of improvements thereon; declaring war veteran, college and church exemptions in section 1 ¼, 1 ½, and 1a of same Article not affected hereby; asserts intent of amendment to prevent holding land out of use for speculation and to apply to community purposes land values which community creates. Repeals all constitutional provisions and laws conflicting herewith.

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Workmen's Compensation Jan 1918

Workmen's Compensation

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 30. Amends Section 21, Article XX of Constitution. Specifies matters included with complete system of workmen’s compensation. Empowers legislature to establish such system and require any or all persons to compensate workmen for their injury or disability, and dependents thereof for death of said workmen incurred in employment, irrespective of any party’s fault, provide for settling disputes by arbitration, industrial accident commission, courts or any combination thereof; procedures therefor, making decisions of such tribunals reviewable by appellate courts. Declares Industrial Accident Commission and State Compensation Insurance Fund unaffected hereby, confirming functions vested therein.

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Dentistry Jan 1918

Dentistry

Propositions

Initiative Act amending dental law. Requires dentist, here after appointed member of Board of Dental Examiners, have degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine, and some other degree from recognized institution; limits member to one four-year term in six years; as exception to present requirements, declares any applicant of good moral character, with five years practice, and examined and licensed by any state dental board, shall receive license without examination upon paying twenty-five dollars; forbids administering anesthetic, in practicing dentistry, except when adult third person present; declares advertising or charging low fees not unprofessional conduct.

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Stockholder's Liability Jan 1918

Stockholder's Liability

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 37. Amends Section 3, Article XII of Constitution. Eliminates therefrom provisions relative to exposition, companies and liabilities of stockholders thereof. Adds paragraph to section declaring that provisions thereof imposing upon stockholder proportionate liability for debts and upon directors liability for moneys misappropriated shall not apply to any corporation, hereafter organized under laws of this state, which adopts and uses last word of its corporation name the word “Limited” or “Ltd.”, but that stockholders thereof shall be subject to such liabilities as legislature may provide.

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Absent Voters Jan 1918

Absent Voters

Propositions

RESCAN

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Los Angeles County Funds Jan 1918

Los Angeles County Funds

Propositions

Assembly Constitution Amendment 67. Adds Section 18 ½ to Article XI of Constitution. Authorizes Los Angeles County, out of succeeding years’ revenue or income, to reimburse any funds officially held by its treasurer which have been diminished by payment therefrom, during the sixty-fourth to sixty-eighth fiscal years inclusive of claims or demands representing its indebtedness or liability exceeding the income and revenue provided for the year in which same was incurred, whenever electors thereof so decide at election for that purpose, called by supervisors and held in accordance with state election laws.

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Courts Jan 1918

Courts

Propositions

Assembly constitutional amendment 61. Amends Section 1, Article VI of Constitution. Omits from enumeration of courts, in which judicial power is by that section declared vested, “district courts of appeal, superior courts and such inferior courts as the legislature may establish in any incorporated city or town, township, county or city and county” and substitutes therefor “such other courts as the legislature by general law (subject to referendum) may establish.” Declares remaining provision of same article, except section nineteen relating to charging juries, shall have same effect as general laws and legislature may repeal or amend same.

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Organization Within County Of Consolidated City And County Government Jan 1918

Organization Within County Of Consolidated City And County Government

Propositions

RESCAN

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Exempting Cemeteries From Taxation. Jan 1918

Exempting Cemeteries From Taxation.

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10. Adds section 1b to Article XIII of Constitution. Exempts from assessment and taxation the grounds, buildings and equipment within same, securities and income of any cemetery used exclusively for human burial and cemetery purposes and not conducted for profit.

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City Of Venice Indebtedness Jan 1918

City Of Venice Indebtedness

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 62. Amends Section 18, Article XI of Constitution, relating to limitations upon county, municipal and district indebtedness, by adding proviso authoring city of Venice to pay all its indebtedness incurred during years 1914 to 1916 inclusive exceeding the income and revenue therefor, amount to be paid in full of said indebtedness not to exceed in the aggregate sixty thousand dollars, whenever two-thirds of voters thereof so decide at election help for that purpose, and declaring that no statute of limitations shall apply in any manner.

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University Of California Jan 1918

University Of California

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 20. Amends Section 9 of Article IX of Constitution. Provides for administration of University of California by present corporation “The Regents of the University of California” and for composition of governing board thereof, continuing present representative members for their terms; prescribes corporation’s powers, vesting therein, title, management, and disposition of university property. Provides for investing proceeds from public land sales, appropriating income therefrom to agricultural college, requiring state to replace such funds when lost or diminished; university to be independent of political or sectarian influence and no person refused admission because of sex.

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Prohibition Jan 1918

Prohibition

Propositions

Initiative Act. Declares that every person, firm or corporation which manufactures, imports or sells intoxicating liquors after December 31, 1918, except denatured alcohol, shall be guilty of misdemeanor punishable by twenty-five dollars fine and twenty-five days imprisonment for first offense, and by fifty dollars fine and fifty days imprisonment for second offense, and by one hundred dollars fine and one hundred days imprisonment for each subsequent offense.

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Reimbursing Cities For Revenue Losses From Taxation Exemptions For Military Service Jan 1918

Reimbursing Cities For Revenue Losses From Taxation Exemptions For Military Service

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 33. Adds Section 5 to Article XIII of constitution. Authorizes appropriations by state from general revenues after legislative investigations to reimburse any city for loss of revenue resulting from taxation exemption allowed by Section 1 ¼ of same article on account of military service, provided the value of the property so exempted is not less than five per cent of total assessed valuation of property in such city.

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Eminent Domain Jan 1918

Eminent Domain

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 16. Adds Section 30 to Article XI of Constitution. Declares that the state, any county, city and county or municipality may acquire by eminent domain, title in fee simple to property in excess of that actually needed for use in an improvement, such property to be deemed acquired for a public use, and that the procedure for such acquisition and the use and sale, lease or other disposition thereof shall be prescribed by general law.

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Condemnation Of Right Of Way For Public Use Jan 1918

Condemnation Of Right Of Way For Public Use

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 31. Amends section 14, Article I of constitution. Excepts counties from provisions requiring compensation be first made or paid into court for owner before right of way is appropriated; adds proviso authorizing state, political subdivision thereof or district, upon commencement of condemnation proceedings for right of way, to take immediate possession thereof upon making money deposits in such amounts as court may determine adequate to secure to owner immediate payment as compensation therefor, permitting court on motion and upon notice to alter amount of such security.

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Health Insurance Jan 1918

Health Insurance

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 26. Adds Section 32 to Article XX of Constitution. Authorized legislature to establish health insurance system applicable to persons, and their dependents, whose income it deems insufficient to meet hazards of sickness and disability; provide support for such system by contributions, voluntary or compulsory, from such persons , from employers and by state appropriation; and confer upon any commission or court, now or hereafter created, power and authority necessary to effectuate provisions of this section. Declares this section not controlled or limited by other than the referendum provisions of constitution.

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Liquor Regulation Jan 1918

Liquor Regulation

Propositions

RESCAN

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Appellate Court Divisions Jan 1918

Appellate Court Divisions

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 45. Amends Section 4, Article VI of Constitution. Divides first and second district courts of appeal, each into two divisions of three justices each, present officers and terms of justices unaffected, such justices constituting division one of their respective districts, governor appointing three justices for each division two thereof to serve until successors are elected; requires two justices present to transact business and two to concur to judgment; whenever judge of supreme or appellate court cannot act therein authorizes remaining justices thereof to select appellate or superior judge to act pro tempore.

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Borough Government Permanency Jan 1918

Borough Government Permanency

Propositions

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 2. Amends section 8 ½ of Article XI of constitution. Adds provision thereto declaring that whenever a borough is established in a consolidated city and county pursuant to provisions of charter thereof, in connection with annexation of other territory, or otherwise, there shall thereafter be no change in the boundaries or governmental power of such borough without the consent of a majority of the electors of such borough voting at an election held for that purpose.

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State Highway Act Of 1915 Jan 1916

State Highway Act Of 1915

Propositions

This act provides for the issuance and sale of state bonds in the sum of $15,000,000 for the construction of the uncompleted portions of the system of state highways prescribed by the State Highways Act of 1909 and extensions thereof; and prescribes such extensions, and character of construction of same.

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Land Taxation Jan 1916

Land Taxation

Initiatives

LAND TAXATION. Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amending Article XIII of Constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive of improvements: forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person : permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, mothers' endowments and workingmen's disemployment and disability insurance. Declares land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man's work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and wherever else practicable by "Somers System" or other means of exact computation from central locations.

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Ineligibility To Office Jan 1916

Ineligibility To Office

Initiatives

Initiative measure amending Section 19 of Article IV of Constitution. Declares that no Senator or Member of Assembly shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, hold or accept any office, trust, or employment under this State; provided that this provision shall not apply to any office filled by election by the people.

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Ineligibility To Office Jan 1916

Ineligibility To Office

Propositions

Initiative measure amending Section 19 of Article IV of Constitution. Declares that no Senator or Member of Assembly shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, hold or accept any office, trust, or employment under this State; provided that this provision shall not apply to any office filled by election by the people.

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Prohibition Jan 1916

Prohibition

Propositions

Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor. After January 1, 1920, prohibits the manufacture, sale or possession of same, except for medicinal, sacramental, scientific and mechanical purposes under restrictions prescribed by law. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Declares payment of Internal Revenue tax;-prima facie evidence of violation. Declares this amendment shall not affect prohibitory liquor laws, or ordinances, enacted before such date, or be construed as in conflict with Article XXIV-A of Constitution if latter article is adopted, and that this amendment supersedes that article on that date.

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Initiative Amendment Jan 1916

Initiative Amendment

Propositions

Adding Article XXIV-A to Constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor; after January 1 1918, prohibits its possession, gift or sale in saloon, dramshop, dive, store, hotel, restaurant, club, dance-hall or other place of public resort; prohibits sale, accepting or soliciting orders anywhere, except in pharmacies for certain purposes and by manufacturers on premises where manufactured, under delivery and quantity restrictions. Owner or manager of all such places to prevent drinking therein. Restricts transportation. Payment Internal Revenue tax prima facie evidence of violation. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Neither repeals nor limits state or local prohibition, or Article XXIV of Constitution.

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Direct Primary Law Jan 1916

Direct Primary Law

Propositions

Submitted to electors by referendum. Amends provisions of Direct Primary Law of 1913 governing nominations at primary elections so as to permit declaration of party affiliation by elector at polls instead of when registering; prescribes -official ballot containing names of all candidates: electors declaring at polls affiliation with party to vote for candidates of that party only and for present non-partisan offices, electors not so declaring to vote for non-partisan offices only; requires election officer, before delivering ballot to elector, to cancel such portion thereof as elector is not entitled to vote.

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Prohibition Jan 1916

Prohibition

Initiatives

PROHIBITION. Initiative measure adding Article XXIV to Constitution. Defines alcoholic liquor. After January 1, 1920, prohibits the manufacture, sale or possession of same, except for medicinal, sacramental, scientific and mechanical purposes under restrictions prescribed by law. Prescribes and authorizes penalties. Declares payment of Internal Revenue tax prima facie of violation. Declares this amendment shall not affect prohibitory liquor laws, or ordinances, enacted before such date, or be construed as in conflict with Article XXIV-A of Constitution if latter article is adopted, and that this amendment supersedes that article on that date.

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Land Taxation Jan 1916

Land Taxation

Propositions

Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amending Article XIII of Constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive of improvements; forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person; permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, mothers' endowments and workingmen's disemployment and disability insurance. Declares land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man's work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and where ever else practicable by "Somers System" or other means of exact computation from central locations.

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Term Of Superior Judges Jan 1915

Term Of Superior Judges

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment 2 adding section 6 ½ to article VI of constitution making term of office of superior judges twelve years except for judges elected to fill unexpired terms. Declares them subject to recall, impeachment and removal provisions relating to judges.

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Deposit Of Public Moneys Jan 1915

Deposit Of Public Moneys

Propositions

Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 19. Amending section 16 ½ of article XI of constitution. Provides that state, county, or municipal money may be deposited in bank under such conditions as many be provided by law adopted by initiative or by two-thirds vote of each house of legislature approved by governor and subject to referendum; continues in force law now governing deposit of such money until same are changed as in this section authorized.

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